The apogee enterprise solution is a truly integrated cross-industry world class ma-nagement software. Designed with a modular concept, each application software fulfills a specialized role in the support of the client’s mission. Organized into families of products, it addresses the requirements of financial management and accounting, project accounting and control, distribution logistics, manufacturing, business intelligence, document management and, the base of it all, the smartvision tool kit. The result is a strong, stable, innovative and easy to use corporate software environment that will support the entire spectrum of an organization’s business processes. Cultivating innovative technologies on a solid foundation of business experience, we deliver a solution that is scaleable and that will assure a constant evolution of your business practices.

The entire library of Apogee has been created with one mission in mind: to help clients achieve their objectives through the effective use of information technology. It is just not enough to process information efficiently. To stay competitive, such information should be used strategically.

Our suite of applications comprises core modules for customer service logistics, manufacturing and financial management operations, as well as optional modules designed to support individual specialized needs. Our prime focus during the design of our software consists on understanding how you do things, as opposed to what you do. This business process understanding creates a most flexible software suite that will enable your organization to overcome those obstacles and challenges needed to be resolved in order to rapidly attain your corporate objectives.

We recognize that no two businesses are alike. So we help our customers develop business solutions that meet the unique requirements of their operations. We look at business opportunities one client at the time.

Financial Management and Accounting

It’s a given: to compete successfully, organizations like yours need to spend time carefully analyzing financial information. The other side of the coin? Where do you find time when much of the staff is devoted to processing and tracking down data from different sources and relentlessly trying to reconcile those ledgers? The Apogee integrated financial management and accounting family of products can solve much of these issues. The application uses all the power of sub-ledger accounting coupled to a much flexible relational entity hierarchy concept that allows reporting to any level of your organizational and operational flow chart. Integrating the optional encumbrance accounting and budget control, you can proactively manage your overall accounting and financial planning and reporting within the same environment. Truly multi-currency compatible, these modules help you deal with the intricacies of international accounting and foreign currency management. The natural integration to your office automation creates a unique and homogeneous working environment for the users.

Project Management and Control

You are a service enterprise that is project driven, and need to find a way to promptly collect the data required to compile the cost of all resources assigned to those projects. The management of actual cost versus budgeted by sub-projects, activities and external resources is much time consuming. You need to further integrate work-in process and turn it into cost plus, milestone or prorated billing. You feel those best of breed software have forgotten all about this sector of the economy.

Designed exactly to improve the efficiency of the service enterprises, the apogee project management and control uses solid costing techniques and combine matrix accounting functions that tracks all human and material resources assigned to a project, external activities sub-contracted and those often forgotten expense accounts. The project billing assures a timely issuance of invoices following various billing techniques, in the format required by the client. The natural integration to your office automation creates a unique and homogeneous working environment for the users.

Distribution Logistics

For many companies, the distribution logistics is the area that represents the most potential for improvement in the enterprise resource planning integration. The powerful features of Apogee‘s distribution logistics guide you to capitalize on the opportunity by addressing a wide range of product management issues, and enabling your organi-zation to best deal with such daily concerns and challenges:

• What products need stocking
• Should you order-fill from existing stock
• When should you buy
• How much should you buy
• How to determine total cost of inventory ownership
• How to manage best my distribution facilities and shipping processes
• Where do the sales come from
• How much profit on this line of product

To control your margins and transactions in this highly competitive world, our distribution logistics help track inventory turnover, and increase the customer service level. The integrated cost accounting and inventory management can be performed on a broad variety of methods, including serialized, lot control and weighted average, as well as a most comprehensive product kiting. The natural integration to your office automation creates a unique and homogeneous environment for the users.

Manufacturing

How do I keep production on schedule? Is it in line with the forecast? How can I coordinate all the data that is so vital to the manufacturing process? What is the real cost of my production? What should the selling price really be? Could I do a better job at anticipating costs and judging lead-time? So many questions that remain unanswered.

The Apogee manufacturing family helps address these challenges, combining make-to-stock, make-to-order and engineered-to-order requirements in one complete solution. This manufacturing management software is equally beneficial for an mrpii or job shop operation, combining the ease to manage both manufacturing philosophies under one application. Whether your production is driven by forecast, a master schedule, client orders or just-in-time, you will have a much easier job of better controlling the production activities. If you do custom manufacturing, you will have access to effective controls that will greatly enhance the production of engineered-to-order products. The integrated quality management and preventive maintenance applications will give your manufacturing environment that edge to beat your competition. The natural integration to your office automation creates a unique and homogeneous working environment for the users.